The 2012 Doomsday Prophesy

"Mayan elder insists calendar date 21 December 2012 is not the end of the world."

Most of us have heard the rumor that the world is supposed to end when the Mayan calendar runs out on 21 December 2012. As time draws nearer, the superstitious among our race are becoming desperate for answers. Tired of being bombarded with questions, Mayan elder Apolinario Chile Pixtun, of Mexico City, wants to set the record straight.

Elder Pixtun acknowledges that an important event will happen on the date in question, but it is a misunderstanding. The date was taken from a tablet found during road construction in the 1960's. The tablet had been vandalized and the remaining parts end with 21 December 2012. He say's that just because 2012 is the last year to appear on what we have left...doesn't mean anything, and that other tablets have been found with dates far beyond this.

He also points out that the "end of the world" scenario is a western concept; the Mayan's never gave any such prophecy. What "is" supposed to happen is the end of their Baktun, a 394 year increment of time. The 13th Baktun falls on 21 December 2012. It is simply "the end and a new beginning" of the Mayan baktun.

Of course, there will always be those who try to invoke public panic by claiming that there will coincidentally be some sort of cataclismic event such as the aligning of planets causing the earth's axis to falter sending temperatures to uninhabitable extremes.

Keep in mind that there have been other end-of-day's prophesies that have come and gone, yet here we all are...reason enough to keep on keepin' on. According to the Mayan's, we have nothing to fear.